Combination-board



-M. 0. DAZINSKIENE.

COMBINATION BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR, 21. 1920.

Patented Mar. 29, 1921.

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MARJ'IONA O. DAZINSKIENE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

COMBINATION-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 29, 1921.

Application filed March 27, 1920. Serial No. 369,253.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARJIONA O. DAEIN-sKrnNE, a citizen of Lithuania, residing at St. Louis and State ofMissouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCombination-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a portable scaffold for painters,paperhangers, whitewashers or such workman, and it has for an object toprovide a simple and inexpensive scaffold which may be easilytransported and which supports in a convenient manner the workersmaterials.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure l is a perspective view of a scaffold constructed according tothe present invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the scaffold set up as a step ladder.

As here shown my improved scaffold comprises a horizontal plank 10forming the platform of the scaffold and which is supported at one endby a pair of legs 11 hinged thereto as at 12 and connected near theirlower ends by a cross brace 13. The other end of the plank is mounted onan upright ladder member 14: by means of a bar 15 passing throughselected ones of vertically spaced openings 16 in the legs of theladder, to which the plank connects about Ipidway between top and bottomof the ladcer. by the rigid diagonal struts 17 and is provided withordinary rungs 18. Upon the upper end of the ladder is mounted a smalltable 19 having a T-shaped recess 20 in the edge thereof facing towardthe plank to support the workmans brush or brushes when momentarily laidaside, a brush being indicated at 21.

Hinged to the legs of the ladder near the upper end are a pair of arms22 which carry The ladder is braced at its lower end In Fig. 2 the useof the cleats 24: is more .fully illustrated when the device is to beused as a step ladder. The brace 13 is placefi upon the cleats 2 1 andthe bar 15 to which the inner end of the board 10 is hinged is placedwith its ends through the holes 16 near the top of the ladder.

It will be apparent that my improved scaffold will facilitate work suchas above referred to, being easily moved from place to place while thetable supports the brushes and pails doing away with stooping of theworkman.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is as fo1- l0ws-- A.combined scaffold and step ladder, comprising a ladder member having inits side bars a plurality of pairs of perforations, a plank adapted tobe alternatively used as a scaffold platform or a supporting prop in astep ladder, a pair of members hingedly connected at one end to one endof said plank, a cross brace connecting the free ends of said members, apair of cleats adjacent the lower ends of the bars of said ladder, and apivot bar adapted to be secured to the second end of said plank and tobe selectively engaged in any one of said pairs of perforations, wherebyto hingedly and removably secure said plank to said ladder, to form ascaffold or a step ladder according to said selective engagement, saidcleats being adapted to engage said cross brace when said plank ispositioned as the prop of a step ladder.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

MARJ IONA DAZINSKIENE.

